Setup Guide

Official website

https://ngrok.com/

MacOS

Install

• Register an account on ngrok using the above link
• open terminal and run brew install ngrok/ngrok/ngrok

Configure

• Find this command ngrok config add-authtoken <YourAuthToken> on your ngrok’s home page and run it in the terminal

Do before every run

• Open a new window and start backend, checkout to localMongo run npm start
• Open a new window and start frontend, checkout to officeHour run npm start
• In terminal, run ngrok http https://localhost:8080 or 8443, depending on .env file’s PORT in backend
• In frontend’s root directory, change config.json hostname to the ngrok app link provided in the terminal
• https://<someURL> will be your temporary backend host domain

Windows

• Download binary file from ngrok setup page and run the binary (exe)
• In the powershell run ngrok config add-authtoken YourAuthToken
• Check out localMongo branch and run ngrok http https://localhost:8443
• In the terminal, you should see something like forwarding <https://someURL> -> https://localhost:8443